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        "msgid": "government-pressed-ahead-with-rights-tribunal-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-10-06 00:00:00",
        "title": "Government pressed ahead with rights tribunal",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Government pressed ahead with rights tribunal JAKARTA (JP): An interministerial team set a two-day timeframe on Tuesday to complete a draft of a government regulation in lieu of a law which will constitute the establishment of a national tribunal to prosecute human rights abuses in East Timor. Minister of Justice\/State Secretary Muladi said after presiding over the team's initial meeting that the regulation, widely known as Perpu, would then be promptly enacted by President B.J. Habibie.",
        "content": "<p>Government pressed ahead with rights tribunal<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): An interministerial team set a two-day timeframe<br>\non Tuesday to complete a draft of a government regulation in lieu<br>\nof a law which will constitute the establishment of a national<br>\ntribunal to prosecute human rights abuses in East Timor.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Justice\/State Secretary Muladi said after<br>\npresiding over the team's initial meeting that the regulation,<br>\nwidely known as Perpu, would then be promptly enacted by<br>\nPresident B.J. Habibie.<\/p>\n<p>The team involves the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of<br>\nForeign Affairs, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the State<br>\nSecretariat.<\/p>\n<p>\"This (Perpu) is important because it is related to our<br>\nnational pride and sovereignty,\" said Muladi.<\/p>\n<p>The team met with Habibie and his team at Merdeka Palace later<br>\nin the day.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia decided to set up the national human rights tribunal<br>\nin a bid to reject the presence of a United Nations inquiry to<br>\nprobe alleged human rights abuses in East Timor after the Aug. 30<br>\nself-determination ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Alatas reiterated on Tuesday<br>\nthat the government would not cooperate with the United Nations<br>\nhuman rights commission in probing alleged atrocities in the<br>\nformer Portuguese colony. He said the government had assigned the<br>\nNational Commission on Human Rights to follow up on the<br>\nallegations.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also warned the international fact-finding<br>\ninquiry it would be barred from entering East Timor without prior<br>\npermission from Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\"We will not accept it, we cannot accept it, because there is<br>\nalready a national team headed by the National Commission on<br>\nHuman Rights,\" Alatas said on Tuesday evening after reporting to<br>\nHabibie his recent visit to the UN annual general assembly in New<br>\nYork.<\/p>\n<p>UN spokesman Fred Eckhard however said the international team<br>\nwould go ahead with the inquiry with or without cooperation from<br>\nIndonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\"The commission of inquiry will go ahead in any case,\" Eckhard<br>\nsaid last week, as quoted by AFP. (prb)<\/p>",
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